John Gibson Gallery Explained

John Gibson Gallery
Formation:	November 1967
Headquarters:	New York City, New York, U.S.
Leader Name:	John Gibson

The John Gibson Gallery was a contemporary art gallery in New York City, in operation from November 1967 to 2000, and founded by .^[1] Early on, the gallery specialized in selling contemporary monumental–sized sculptures.

History

Precursor

The Park Place Gallery in New York became a center of attention for the downtown art scene and their original gallery members were all of the cutting edge.^[2] John Gibson was the first director of Park Place Gallery from 1963 to 1965.^[3] By 1966, the SoHo neighborhood of New York City had a growing artist community, and had revolutionized what was possible for young artists.^[4]

John Gibson Gallery

John Gibson later opened his own gallery in 1967, in the neighborhood of Lenox Hill. Gibson was aided in running the John Gibson Gallery by his wife, Susan Gibson.^[5] The John Gibson Gallery held its first group exhibition in November 1967, The Hanging, Floating, Cantilever Show.^[6] The first exhibition featured installation art by Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Snelson, Christo, Robert Morris, Forrest Myers, and Sol LeWitt. By 1972, the gallery moved locations to 392 West Broadway in Soho.

John Gibson Gallery closed in 2000, and Gibson died on March 1, 2019. The John Gibson Gallery has work in public collections such as the Harvard Art Museums.^[7]

Artists

The gallery is primarily known for the Minimalist, land art, arte povera, conceptual artists and European artists it has represented and whose careers it helped launch.

Gallery locations

• 1967–1971, John Gibson Gallery, Projects for Commissions, 27 East 67th Street, New York City, New York, 10021^[8]
• 1972–1980, John Gibson Gallery, 392 West Broadway, New York City, New York, 10012^[9]
• 1981–1984, John Gibson Gallery, 205 East 78th Street, New York City, New York, 10021
• 1984–2000, John Gibson Gallery, 568 Broadway at Prince, New York City, New York, 10012

External links

• Interview with John Gibson, , from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
• John Gibson Gallery on ArtFactsNet

Notes and References

1. Web site: MacAdam. Barbara A.. 2019-03-15. Vasari Diary: On John Gibson (1933–2019), Rob Wynne, Jane Benson, Robert Murray, and Film Forum. 2021-09-14. ARTnews.com. en-US.
2. Park Place Gallery original members included Mark di Suvero, Forrest Myers, Robert Grosvenor, Edwin Ruda, Dean Fleming, Leo Valledor, Peter Forakis, Tamara Melcher, Tony Magar and later David Novros, John Baldwin and Gay Glading
3. News: Smith. Roberta. 2009-12-17. Peter Forakis, a Sculptor of Geometric Forms, Is Dead at 82. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-09-14. 0362-4331.
4. Web site: September 2008. "Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York" at Blanton Museum of Art. 2021-09-15. Artforum.com. en-US.
5. News: Bongartz. Roy. 1974-08-11. Question: How Do You Buy. A Work of Art Like This?. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-09-14. 0362-4331.
6. Web site: The Hanging, Floating & Cantilevered Show An Aerial Perspective of sculpture, opening exhibition, 1967 Nov.-Dec., from the Lucy R. Lippard papers, 1930s-2007, bulk 1960-1990. 2021-09-14. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. en.
7. Web site: Harvard. John Gibson Gallery. 2021-09-14. Harvard Art Museums. en.
8. Book: Rosalind, Constable. New York Magazine. 1969-03-10. New York Media, LLC. New York City, NY. 46. en. The New Art: Big Ideas for Sale.
9. Book: Grundberg, Andy. How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age. 2021-02-23. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-25989-6. 92–93. en.